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ABAQUS

ABAQUS Installation and Licensing Guide
includes “Customizing the ABAQUS environment

 Introduction to ABAQUS

Note: –l abaqus_ncpus=X makes the job wait for licenses

WARNING: Do *NOT* use Hummingbird Exceed v7 or v8 with ABAQUS. See this link.

Versions
zeus: 6.6-1
notus: 6.8
boreas: 6.9-2

notus & boreas example

Replace X and Y where X is the number of processors
and
Y is X divided by 2
For boreas, use boreasall instead of notusall

Underlined portion is for Explicit only
For Standard, some operations can use MPI while others cannot
See Abaqus Analysis User’s Manual Section 11.9

#!/bin/csh
#PBS -q para -l nodes=
Y:notusall:ppn=2 –l abaqus_ncpus=X
cd /user/vasantpe/directory1/subdirectory2
source /apps/abaqus/set_abaqus.csh
abaqus job=jobname input=inputfile.inp cpus=
X mp_mode=mpi parallel=domain domains=X interactive
rm -rf $TMPDIR

zeus example

Replace X where X is the number of processors

#!/bin/csh
#PBS -q para -l nodes=zeus -l ncpus=
X –l abaqus_ncpus=X
cd /user/vasantpe/directory1/subdirectory2
source /apps/abaqus/set_abaqus.csh
abaqus job=jobname input=inputfile cpus=
X interactive
rm -rf $TMPDIR